Method of and apparatus for handling material



.H. B. WALKER METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING MATERIAL Nov. 6, 1928.

Filed Sept. 15,. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 v. v A

Nov. 6, 1928. 1,690,603,

- H. B. WALKER METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING MATERIAL Filed Sept. 15, 1926 2 Sheds-Sheet 2 lNVENTOR 3. WW I H WW Patented Nov. 6, 1928.

UNITED v s A Es PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY B. WALKER, OF MARION, OHIO, ASSIG N OR TO THE FAIRFIELD-ENGINEERING COMPANY, OF MARION, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING MATERIAL.

Application filed September 15, 1926. Serial No. 135,550..

My invention relates to conveyor apparatus for handling materials such as coal, and has especialreference to the storing of coal and the loading of the same into locomotive tend ers or cars.

My invention has for one of its objects the provision of an improved form of apparatus whereby coal may be transferred from a point beneath a railroad track to a storage bin and thereafter transferred from said bin to a car or a locomotive tender on said track. c

Another object of my invention is to simple ty and improve generally the mothers of an apparatus for handling coal and the like.

One form of appartus by which my invention may be practiced is shown in the arcor; panying drawing wherein-l 1 is aside elcvational view thereof, taken on the line 11 of Fig. 2, and Fig; 2 a plan view.

As shown in the drawing, an unloading pit 3 is provided beneath railroadtracks l. The coal to be stored is dumped at the pit 3, upon the feeding device 5 which maybe of conventional form, somewhat as shown in the Cave and Blenko Patent 1,521,276. The feeding device advances the coal toward the right to effect discharge thereof into a. hopper 6 that is mounted in the lower end of an inclined conveyor frame 7. An endless bucket 'conveyor of any usual form is carried by the frame 7, so as to convey coal or other material from the hopper 6 to a discharge chute 8. The

frame 7 is pivotally supported upon a hanger 9 that is connected to a. block 10. The block 10 has swivel connection with a carrier or wheeled bracket, 11. The wheels on the bracket 11 are supported upon the bottom flanges of an I beam 12 which serves as a track and is supported by frame work 13.

lVhen the conveyor occupies the position shown in toll lines it will convey coal from the feeding cevicc to the chute 8 tro1n whence it falls into a bin 15 wbo ebottomis inclined to produce a hopper eflect. A pit/16 is provided beneath the lower end of the bin 15, into which the lower end of the conveyor may be swung, as indicated by dottedlines, when it is desired to transfer coal from the at its mid port-ion, on vert zontal and vertical axes andbctween the said track and bin, and the conveyer also being bin to a locomotive tender 1?. As shown in Fig. 2, I may provide two or more bins 15 disposed alongside of the track 12, and the conveyor may be moved along the track from one bin to the other. It may also be found desirable to move the conveyor along the track 12 in order to permit convenient reversal of its position, as when the conveyor is at a point near and there is insuiiicient roointo permit turning thereof. 1

It will be understood that the'bins may be filled from time to time, from cars that are positioned overthe unloading pit S and that after the car is removed, a locomotive tender may be pushed into position to receive a load, and the conveyor swung from the position indicated in full lines to that indicated by dotted lines. It will also be understood that the device may be employed for transferring coal or the like from one carto another car, and its use is not merely limited to the cooling;

locomotives. 7

It will be understood that the transfer de vice 5 may be dispensed with and that the coal may be dumped into a hopper beneath the tracks a from which it can be carried away by the conveyor into the bin 15. This hopper could be constructedina manner similar to the bin 15. V V

I claim as my invention:

Apparatus for transferring material from a point beneath a. railroad track into vehicle on said track, comprising a bin located to one side of said track and having a discl'iarge opening in its bottom portion a conveyor. and means for pivotall suppo n the same ically alincd horiot such length that it may be so positioned as to permit either transfer of material from beneath the track to the top of the bin or frame bottom the bin into a vehicle mounted on the track. 1 i

In testimony whereoi I, the said HENRY B.

'lVALitnR, have hereunto set my hand.

HENRY B. WALKER. 

